History, Politics & Sociology Programs

Ken Crane PHD

Education:

M.P.A., international development, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1986

B.A., religion, Pacific Union College, 1982

Principal Research Interests

Currently in year three of multi-sited ethnography of the post-2003 refugee experience of Iraqis in the Inland Empire; examining family network migration, social capital, ethnic socialization; additional fieldwork being conducted in Southern Germany and Turkey.

“To be with my people: Latino Churches in the Midwest” (with Ann V. Millard). In Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latinos in the Midwest. Edited by Jorge Chapa and Ann V. Millard. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

“Mexicans, Americans, and Neither: Students at Wheelerton High.” In Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest, edited by Jorge Chapa and Ann V. Millard. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

“Local Police, the INS, and ‘Churning Bad Public Opinion’.” In Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest, edited by Jorge Chapa and Ann Millard. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

Latino Churches: Family, Faith, and Ethnicity in the Second Generation. Leo Balk Scholarly: New York, 2003.